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> Bet you a dollar the GitHub mobile app that's going to come out pretty soon will also be totally proprietary with no source provided.

Stable version already came out a while ago, been using it on my phone. Also, GitHub the website has never been open source and they never pretended it was or was going to be, so no one was holding breath for source code of the mobile app.




I mean, they could have totally released the source and it probably wouldn’t impact their bottom line at all.


It would make quite a dent in support contracts for their on-prem offering.


I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. The mobile app isn't something that requires a ton of support anyway. What good would the source code do you in this case?


I think jon-wood was talking about the website’s source code, not the mobile app.




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